{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-19F",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996/schedule-1/paragraph-19F.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1996/52",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1996",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/19F",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "19F",
  "heading": "Inspector's powers to require provision of documents or information: supplemental",
  "text": "(1) A requirement does not require a person to disclose anything which the person would be entitled to refuse to disclose on grounds of legal professional privilege in proceedings in the High Court.\n(2) A requirement does not require a banker to breach a duty of confidentiality owed to a person who is not—\n(a) the registered social landlord to whose affairs or activities the document or information relates,\n(b) a subsidiary of that landlord, or\n(c) an associate of that landlord.\n(3) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph 19E(4) is liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale.\n(4) A person guilty of an offence under paragraph 19E(5) is liable—\n(a) on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum;\n(b) on conviction on indictment, to—\n(i) imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years,\n(ii) a fine, or\n(iii) both.\n(5) Proceedings for an offence under paragraph 19E(4) or (5) may be brought only by or with the consent of—\n(a) the Welsh Ministers, or\n(b) the Director of Public Prosecutions.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 19F inserted (18.10.2011) by Housing (Wales) Measure 2011 (nawm 5), ss. 47, 90(2); S.I. 2011/2475, arts. 1(2), 2(g)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/34",
      "affecting_title": "Housing Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2004/34",
      "affecting_title": "Housing Act 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2003/44",
      "affecting_title": "Criminal Justice Act 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ukpga/2007/15",
      "affecting_title": "Tribunals, Courts and Enforcement Act 2007"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1996/52/schedule/1/paragraph/19F",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:29:46.595645+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}